A little Nicolas Cage goes a terrifyingly long way in writer/director Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, a serial-killer-procedural-slash-occult-delving creepfest that confidently echoes the likes of The Silence of the Lambs and David Fincher’s Zodiac before spinning off wildly on its own diabolical axis.
Maika Monroe assumes the Jodie Foster role as Lee Harker, an introverted FBI newbie whose near-psychic intuition could be the key to ending a barbaric string of whole-family slaughters in '90s Oregon. Cage, meanwhile, is the film’s titular Lecter: an unctuous predator with a frizzy mop, sing-song cadence and puffy prosthetics that make him weirdly resemble Celia Weston in Shyamalan’s The Village.
